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Rare WWII sketches of the 'Great Escape'

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A soldier's wartime diary that contains incredible drawings of British PoWs digging the tunnel immortalised in the film The Great Escape has come to light 67 years on.

The pencil and watercolour sketches doodled into Private William MacDonald's log depict a humorous side of life at the infamous Stalag Luft III camp during World War Two.

Some of the 28 sketches are harmless jokes at the expense of the Germans but one drawing shows servicemen working on the tunnel nicknamed 'Harry.

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